I was thinking about blogging about the disciples on the Road to Emmaus when I sat down to breakfast today, and then I read Pope Francis' homily on this very ...
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"Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen!" - Luke 24:6
Alleluia! Happy Easter!
I usually enter the Lenten season like gangbusters. Armed with books and plans -- overly ambitious plans -- I typically approach Ash Wednesday in spiritual ...
For I don’t know how long now, I’ve been carrying around Elizabeth Scalia’s book, Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life. It’s in my purse, on my ...
A couple of friends sent me an article today called "Yoga - A Catholic Perspective," and as soon as I saw the graphic and the one-line synopsis, I knew I wasn't ...
This is one of those songs. Every time I get in the car, it seems to come on. Hadn't ever heard it up until a few days ago but fell in love with it the first ...
Today I head to the Jersey Shore to give a two-day retreat -- "Creating Calm Amid Life's Chaos" -- to the principals of the Diocese of Metuchen at the San ...
Over the past few weeks, folks here have talked about the role of Eucharist in their lives and in the liturgy, with a lot of people saying as long as there is ...
Yeah, hey, so guess what? I'm not the only one who has issues with bad homilies. Turns out Pope Francis feels the same way. And he gets applause when he talks ...
Banned Book Week starts tomorrow, September 22, and I would like to personally encourage you to find your most favorite banned book and read it again. What? ...
As I watched the events in Rio unfold throughout the World Youth Day celebration, I found myself tearing up over photos of three million people crammed on a ...
This has been a crazy busy week, but a good week. After months of preparation, weeks of handwringing and many sleepless nights of worry, Noah's Eagle Scout ...
The determination of the human spirit is amazing, and watching this video clip is inspiring. But the entire time I watched and listened, all I kept thinking ...
I walked into Zumba class at our local Y last night and found my spot on the studio floor. Just in front of me was a woman I'd never seen before, but I smiled, ...
This past week has been a whirlwind of activity, and there's no end in sight. But it's all good. Busy, but good busy. By next week at this time, we will have ...
I am always amazed by the shifting sands of life. We can be moving along, fairly content, assuming we're on an even course, when out of nowhere something we ...
It doesn't take more than a few minutes at the town pool or even, say, the patio at Cheesecake Factory on a summer afternoon to realize that most of the U.S. ...
I've decided to bring back my Manic Monday post, if only to inspire myself to get back to regular blogging. In the past, this post has been a run down of books ...
I have this Thomas Merton quote taped to my desk right above my keyboard and below my monitor. I kind of need this reminder on a pretty constant basis. Every ...
Would you rather be a clothesline or a kite? That was the question, and we were supposed to pick sides. Dennis ended up standing on the clothesline side, while ...